http://www.universetoday.com/2010/06/09/japanese-firm-designing-futuristic-space-mega-projects/

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/12/mit.research.electricity/index.html

http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/3/10/20-000-floors-under-the-sea--2

http://holykaw.alltop.com/china-looks-to-combustible-ice-as-a-fuel-sour-0Read more... )

http://autos.aol.com/article/seven-electric-vehicle-lies

The modern internal-combustion engine is not obsolete, and is one hell of a lot better than its predecessors as far as efficiency and performance go ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that we and starfaring ETs have at least one very important thing in common: we are fire-animals, whose power technology began with fire, and whose search for ways of extracting power from our environment that transcend fire have taken some very strange turns. We both have that one great technological language in common -- and ( Read more... )

On the Plutonian Smith-Gods (from J. C. Cooper, Chinese Alchemy:  The Taoist Quest for Immortality (New York: The Sterling Publishing Company, 1990), pp. pp. 73-77):

Two of the artificers most concerned with alchemy and necessary for its work were the miner and the smith. The miner operates in the early stages, bringing forth the ores, ( Read more... )

You know, Barack Obama & Co. and their shenanigans are exactly the sort of control-freak move which my adoptive parents would have pulled as a way of completely controlling me back when I was a child. The fact that my adoptive parents voted Republican and LOUDLY declared how much they loathed Democrats and everything connected with them -- this ( Read more... )

You know, it occurs to me that most of that enormous bastard of a bill is just a distraction from its real purpose, which is to provide a "legal" way of eliminating all those "useless mouths to feed," i.e., the homeless, those between jobs, those on SSI and other disability programs, those working minimum-wage jobs, and so on. A provision in that ( Read more... )

http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/11/11/a_minority_view_constitutional_contempt?page=full

Nancy Pelosi is exactly like the girls who nearly drove me to commit suicide when I was in elementary ( Read more... )